The Saving tiny Hearts Society is thrilled to announce that we have funded four (4) new research projects along with providing second year funding for another project! Our Medical Review Board reviewed twenty-five (25) applications and selected the following projects as the best of the best!!

Projects funding awarded in 2012-2013:

• Defining New Mechanisms to Uncover the Early Developmental Manifestations of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy in Children
  Principle Investigator – Farah Sheikh
  The Regents of the University of California
  University of California San Diego
• Engaging Sonographers to Improve Prenatal Screening for Heart Defects in Practice
  Principle Investigator – Nelangi M. Pinto
  University of Utah
• Augmenting O-GlcNAcylation, an Intrinsic Cardiovascular Stress Adaption, to Prevent Low Cardiac Output Syndrome in Mocel of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  Principle Investigator – Aaron Olson
  Seattle Children's Hospital
• Myosin Heavy Chain 7 Mutation and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  Principle Investigator – Charles E. Murray
  University of Washington
• Defining New Paradigms for Arrhythmia and Sudden Cardiac Death in Children
  Principle Investigator – Peter Mohler, PhD
  The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  Second Year Funding